Quotation Explorer - 'Books'

Your love opened up a whole world that no amount of books or wisdom could ever do. - Kamand Kojouri

When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life. - Gabrielle Zevin

You'll want to read books - novels, because ladies are frivolous; poetry because ladies are sentimental; and sermons, because we are pious. If you must read essays, Mr. Emerson might be best. Your gentleman may have a nodding acquaintance with his works. - Donald McCaig

Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides. - Lurlene McDaniel

Books are meat and medicineand flame and flight and flowersteel, stitch, cloud and clout,and drumbeats on the air. - Gwendolyn Brooks

Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.

Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind. - Carla H. Krueger

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts. - Axel Munthe

Everything I have learned has not come from books, it has come experientially over time under pressure walking with Christ".~ [2012] - R. Alan Woods

I wonder whether, perhaps without realizing it, we seek out the books we need to read. Or whether books themselves, which are intelligent entities, detect their readers and catch their eye. In the end, every book is the I Ching. You pick it up, open it, and there it is, there you are. - Andrés Neuman

Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space. - John Derbyshire

A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy. - Astrid Lindgren

As with companions so with books. We may choose those which will make us better, more intelligent, more appreciative of the good and the beautiful in the world, or we may choose the trashy, the vulgar, the obscene, which will make us feel as though we've been 'wallowing in the mire. - David O. McKay

We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books. - Sara Sheridan

The mere thought that she was alone and surrounded by books gave her a near-sensuous thrill. As she looked around her room, dark escaper for the slash of light near her lamp, and saw the vague outlines of her books, she asked herself 'Have I not the whole world? - Andrew Wilson

I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper. - Amit Kalantri

Books give knowledge. Mistakes gives experience. - Jury Nel

People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book. - Deyth Banger

...he spent whole days and nights over his books; and thus with little sleeping and much reading his brains dried up to such a degree that he lost the use of his reason. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Current "literature" [is] well-written books in which disgusting people do disgusting things to other disgusting people for no apparent reason and with no apparent resolution. - Roberta Gellis

A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2) - William Shakespeare

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight - Ezra Pound

Children’s and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we get. I think that’s why so many adults read YA: we’re never done coming of age. - Betsy Cornwell

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement. - B.F. Skinner

Never trust books on the question of whether or not to trust your rational thinking. Trust your rational thinking on the question of whether or not to trust the books. - Abhijit Naskar

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends. - S. Weir Mitchell

Poetry is nothing if it exists only in books. One has to find it in one's own life. - Marty Rubin

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. - Henry Ward Beecher

It began to falter not when the book publishers who loved books gave way to those who preferred profits to reading. It happened when publishers and editors cut back on their drinking. If there is one national flower in book publishing, it is the martini. - Al Silverman

Books and spiritual blessings are the greatest soul food - Lailah Gifty Akita

‎Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style. - Jonathan Raban

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life. - Barbara Kingsolver

All of the the books, the readings, the workshops, the ah-ha moments won't change your life unless you put actions behind them. - Eileen Anglin

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me. - Charles Lamb

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all. - Jackie Kennedy

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them. - Philip Pullman

We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read until the cover fell off, the book you read hidden from your mother. What an honor to hold hands with a child's imagination in this way. - Meg Medina

There are so many wonderful places created in my mind simply from the books I have read, I have been transported to some unforgettable, magic places but there are so many more I wish to visit and so little time that I fear I never will. - Roxie Hibberd (Smith ) ME

...because there's a secret order. The books, you can't place them random. The other day I put Cervantes next to Tolstoj.And I thought, if close to Anna Karenina we have Don Quixote, sure the latter will do his best to save her. - Ettore Scola

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them. - Evan Esar

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. - James Russell Lowell

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. - William Shakespeare

Reincarnation is when I tell a girl I write spiritual books and she thinks I'm a monk. She has a medieval soul. - Daniel Marques

Books have a complete disregard for your feelings. They don't care if you are crying. They are going to continue making you cry. - Love The Stacks Bookstore

Without books no one can be a good teacher nor even a good student of this art. - Fiore Dei Liberi

How do you choose your books?' my friends had asked. Less than a week into my project, I can now tell them the beginning of the truth. I don't always choose the books, I'll say. Sometimes the books choose me. - Sara Nelson

And that is the problem with a society that doesn't read books. The most painful form of censorship does not come from a centralized, repressive government. It is a cast, black cloak of a nation's indifference. - Lourd de Veyra

I hate most people. And I don’t want to, it’s an awful way to be. But the human race gives me no comfort. I find myself turning to books and films for comfort still. It’s repulsive, because one’s life consists of people, not things. - Morrissey

I most likely like books which are out of my language... English... for example is a great example - Not my native language, but I enjoy the covers and how the words sound. - Deyth Banger

Books are my greatest treasures. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence. - Fay Weldon

The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching nor learning. They are windows on the past, mirrors on the present, and prisms reflected all possible futures. Books are lighthouses erected on the dark sea of time. - Greg Weisman

And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is. - Paul Auster

Books are readable drugs. - Carla H. Krueger

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What's the rush? Recognise that with the time at our disposal, there is only a limited number of good books you can read, a few really good movies worth seeing, and a finite number of hours, days, years to enjoy them! - Ken Puddicombe

I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them. - Hugo Chávez

If you are talking about beauty, books are cheaper than cosmetics. - Svaradiva

We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever. - Philip Pullman

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. - Carl Sagan

One day, I decided I was going to write books forever. - Carla H. Krueger

It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice. - Kristen Lamb

Back then I could not understand one word of what I read.Reading did, however, give me heart. Even if you cannot understand what you are reading you can get something from books. - Peter Høeg

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind. - Michel de Montaigne

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. - Joseph Brodsky

The greatest treasures are books. - Lailah Gifty Akita

We live for books. - Umberto Eco

People who know and love the same books you do have the roadmap of your soul. I believe that. - Cassandra Clare

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present. - Ross Macdonald

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. - W. H. Auden

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives. - Laurie Anderson

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. - Winston S. Churchill

1484Hi Goodreads. My first day. I read all of the time but I must promote my own 2 books - Vulnerabilia and Legacy.VULNERABILIA - James Dalton

From ... the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. ... I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books. - George Orwell

There is something fascinatingly awkward about an author photo. I'm drawn to those glossy shots in the back of books, mostly because the subjects never look happy to be there. - Pamela Ribon

Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight. - Stephen Chbosky

I was behind, but now I'm below. Hopefully, they'll have books wherever I go... - Carmen DeSousa

Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print. - Barbara W. Tuchman

Religious people never believe I write books. Someone should tell them books aren't only produced in monasteries anymore. - Daniel Marques

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. - Kira Hawke

He said that the principal function of music was to organize the details into harmonies that were intended to make us forget that there was randomness all around us. The same, he said, could be said for great books. - Selden Edwards

Just imagine if you took all the money you've spent on these things and traveled around the world with it, instead, or bought books and read them. Think about how much you would know about life. - Eustace Conway

Great books make great being. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Without reserve, I can say that my entire identity is in the books I write. - Elena Ferrante

Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock.... - Philip Larkin

[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers. - Judy Blume

Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life. - Helen Exley

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth. - Wole Soyinks

We are made wholeBy books, as by great spaces and the stars - Mary Carolyn Davies

To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.I’d never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people. - C.S. Lewis

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other. - Kamand Kojouri

I am a passionate reader.New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books. - Lailah Gifty Akita

You are the author of your own destiny; write yourself into history books. - Matshona Dhliwayo

A mind possessed by unmade books. - Michael Faudet

All books are either dreams or swords. - Amy Lowell

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books. - Voltaire

USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion. - Ambrose Bierce

I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading. - Thomas Babington Macaulay

I will try to write books until I drop dead. - Cornelia Funke

Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY) - John Clute

I am obsessed with good buying books - Lailah Gifty Akita

SCRIPTURES, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. - Ambrose Bierce

Be great, read great books. - Lailah Gifty Akita

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. - Bernard of Clairvaux

The more books you read, the less topics you have in common with most of the people, that´s the price you pay for reading. - Martina Tutková

If books are not good company, where shall I find it? - Mark Twain

You can never, never have too many books - Drew Barrymore

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply. - John Bright

She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all. - Sarah Beth Durst

Life ain't like books. Books got somebody writin' 'em and tryin' to entertain ya. Life is more like a set of Legos. Unless you take care of 'em, you lose a few pieces and you end up steppin' on 'em with bare feet. You gotta take care of your life. - Laura Moncur

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. - Anatole France

Readers often tell me after they've read the books, they find it difficult to sum up the plot in a simple way. My response is, "It's a story about the love a father shares for his daughter. All the rest is just filler."- MJ Mancini, on his best-selling trilogy, "Revelation". - M.J. Mancini

Gary Sherman has written a truly insightful and helpful book that will positively change the lives of its readers. Although many books have wise teachings, few have accessible, reliable and transformative practices like this one. I highly recommend this book. - Russell Delman

Read enough books. - Lailah Gifty Akita

When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer. - Roberto Bolaño

I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of books most people read. Once you see that you lose all hope. - Friedrich Hayek

Childhood is the time and children's books are the place for powerful emotions, powerful language, powerful art... There is no room for cutesy books, dull books, or books that talk down. Children are not inferior. They may be small in stature but not in what they feel, think, listen, and see. - Betsy Hearne

All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men. - Thomas Carlyle

Open books, not legs; blow minds, not guys. - Trish Jackson

when the press and problems of humanity become too much, I love to escape into books, where people are served up in digestible portions and can be pushed to one side when one is satiated. - Jane Wilson-Howarth

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. - Jesse Lee Bennett

You must go to the school or to the books or on the field because knowledge doesn't come to you, you must go to the knowledge. - Amit Kalantri

Writing is like baking cupcakes, you're trying to make something from the raw. Like with cupcakes it's flour and eggs and stuff, and with books it's ideas and words. The end result is the same though, you want people to eat them up. - Emma Shortt

...still, I’m lucky: I feast on solitude, I will never miss the crowd. I could read the great books but the great books don’t interest me. I sit in bed and wait for the whole thing to go one way or the other. just like everybody else. - Charles Bukowski

I love digging myself into books because the moment I'm drifted from reality, I'm in a different world and I'm a different person. - Nathalie M. Llanto

Parents often ask - how do I get my child interested in books and reading? One tried and true way that my late husband and I used was paying them to read. For each book that my sons read, we paid them $1. They soon developed a love for reading and forgot all about the money. Amazing but true! - Soraya Diase Coffelt

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity - George Steiner

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. - Barbara W. Tuchman

I spend many hours in conversation with wonderful characters from fantastic books. - Patti Roberts

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. - Henry David Thoreau

Greatest companion is found in reading great books. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Another silence for the record books. Then he sighs."I know. It's crazy. I feel like --" He stops himself. He suddenly looks so miserable that my heart aches for him.I hate my life. - Cynthia Hand

Some books leave us free and some books make us free. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction) - Seneca

Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in. - Lev Grossman

Women are like locked diaries that men expect to read like open books. - Munia Khan

Books are for nothing but to inspire - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You read enough books in which people like you are disposable, or are dirt, or are silent, absent, or worthless, and it makes an impact on you. Because art makes the world, because it matters, because it makes us. Or breaks us. - Rebecca Solnit

So he earns your undying love by reading a book under a tree?" Cole said dryly. "Why didn't I ever try that approach? I like books and trees. - Brodi Ashton

The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about. - G. Willow Wilson

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

Being on Facebook as an Author and listing your books is like being a tiny single word in a giant dictionary! If people don’t search for you they don’t find you. They don’t take notice of you. They don’t even know you exist! Thats the hard reality of Socialmedia! - Lily Amis

True dexterity is not just in books; It is giving from above, we learn it, it is nurtured, it is applied and it is developed. He who does not know what has been giving to him from above, shall never know how to use what he has been giving effectively and efficiently - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of the writer's occupation. We write books because our children aren't interested in us. We address ourselves to an anonymous world because our wives plug their ears when we speak to them. - Milan Kundera

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Ιη m¥ books, ł'm †ђ3 best; I just need some time тσ prove it ιη ¥øûЯ history books. - Ufuoma Apoki

Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. - Bible

My morning rambles through the park will never make the history books. - Marty Rubin

Set off on a quest to find someone who has read a book or many books and remains the same, and I can tell you with all certainty there is no one you will see. - K.C. OBI

Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number of books they’ve recommended to you. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. - Mark Twain

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions. - Christopher Henry Dawson

The brain is like a muscle; books are the diet and writing is the workout. - Stewart Stafford

I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to. - Virginia Euwer Wolff

The same Andrew Smith is in all these books, but for me, I feel like you can see the point in his writing where he decided he no longer had anything to lose. That, to me, is when he reached the top of his game.~ - Christa Desir

By small and simple sentences, great books come to pass. - Richelle E. Goodrich

In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe true treasures. - Rachel Hall

Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace. - Roberto Bolaño

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book. - J.K. Rowling

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage. - Roald Dahl

Read much, but not many books. - Benjamin Franklin

Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books. - Ellen Hopkins

We read books. They make us think. It matters very little whether we agree with the books or not. - Robert Henri

The books you read in childhood shape the person you become. - Paula Berinstein

Books … they’re kind of a compulsion for me. To find a great bookstore is a great thing. - Philip Seymour Hoffman

Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books. - Shannon L. Alder

Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to the truth, and our persistent leanings to error. But most of all they resemble us in their precious hold on life. - Joseph Conrad

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children. - Marguerite Yourcenar

A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better. - Nicholaa Spencer

Books had taught me new ideas and had shown me ways of life that I would not have known about otherwise, and they offered a refuge when, like now, real life seemed too hard. - Peg Kehert

I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job. - Sara Sheridan

Books appear to be frail and disposable, but they are sacred. You can burn the paper, but the stories live on. In the same way, a poor man or woman is not a burden on society, they are those who survive despite the odds—and when they don’t, they still represent those who tried. - Mohammad Zayer

I cannot live without books. - Thomas Jefferson

Books open and broaden our minds allowing us to challenge ourselves to become more than we are, by setting positive goals for ourselves, and overcoming doubts about our ability to receive the education we want to achieve. - Ellen J. Barrier

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. - Malcolm X

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books."[Proposition touching Amendment of Laws] - Francis Bacon

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life. - Walt Disney Company

If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.

Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper. - Rachael Bermingham

Five years from today, you will be the same person that you are today, except for the books you read and the people you meet. - Charlie "Tremendous" Jones

Books measure time in both moments and years. We all grow old but the stories never will. - R.M. Engelhardt

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. - Paul Valery

Without books, the world will be void. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life. - Stephen King

However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book? - Saadi سعدی

In Dark Places, May we Never be truly Alone.....~, Circle the Sun books - Susan Schroder

There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others… - Chris Geiger

Books inspire us to dream, and then if we let them they will help us to achieve that dream! - Carmela Dutra

Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying. - Melissa Marr

May I have a few friends and many books - both true. - A. Cowley

I look back now with amazement at the small accidents that put certain books before me. - Vince Passaro

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed? - Shannon L. Alder

What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to return books. - David Bowie

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page. - Beverly Lewis

Every child deserves to be a boat cast out in a sea of books. - K. Lamb

Closed books are like closed eyes—you must open them to see anything. - Richelle E. Goodrich

I made a list of things I wanted to do with my life, but it ended up mostly being a list of books I wanted to write - Ellie Rose McKee

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can. - William Feather

These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs. - Anton Chekhov

All the successful personalities had one common element, they all liked reading books. - Amit Kalantri

We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual reality. - M.R. Mathias

A tried and true way to get your children interested in books and reading is to read to them when they are young. - Soraya Diase Coffelt

Books understand me, but humans don't understand me. They are bad friends books are forever as well as computer's and Tv and everything else which doesn't have soul. Although that dogs and cats and many other animals are quite interesting friends. - Deyth Banger

The books that influence the world are those that it has not read. - G.K. Chesterton

Homer begged and Rembrandt went bankrupt. Aristotle, who had money for books, his school, and his museum, could not have bought this painting of himself.Rembrandt could not afford a Rembrandt. - Joseph Heller

I feel sorry for people who say they cannot read big books. - Anonymous

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films. - Iain M. Banks

Books signify the mind of many souls. - Lailah Gifty Akita

It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved by anyone again. - Will Harondale, Clockwork Prince

Eat Ice Cream. Read Books. Be Happy. - Carew Papritz

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. - Albert Einstein

Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are. - Laura Kreitzer

I just read few books, and this books made a magic in my life. - Deyth Banger

When the mind stops searching, when it stops wanting refuge, when it no longer goes in search of security, when it no longer craves more books and information, when it ignores even the memory of desire, only then will Love arrive within. - Samael Aun Weor

I would actually write books totally full of nothing BUT kissing scenes, but apparently people like books to have, like, "plots" or whatever. - Rachel Hawkins

Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written. - John 21:25- Holy Bible

I think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books - China Miéville

Because What we Learn from our Favorite Books, you see in our daily Lives.--- - JennAnijah Publishing

People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are. - G.K. Chesterton

In my own book-signings, I find humility. It’s always humbling when people go out of their way to come visit with me and by some of my books. - Nicholas Trandahl

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods. - Arthur Conan Doyle

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books. - Jorge Luis Borges

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. - Lord Chesterfield

It turned out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are the plane, the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. - Anna Quindlen

Want some books? - John Chord Jr.

Our books are the deepest glimpses into our souls, the most raw and real anybody will ever find us. - Melodie Ramone

Never Judge a Book by its Cover". This quote doesn't apply to books only, but also to people, places and everything else. - Edwin Rolfe and Lester Fuller

You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world. - Ray Bradbury

Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together. - Brenda Sutton Rose

I’d volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free. - Mohammad Hatta

Anything worth anything can be found in books. - Nora Roberts

Well there's these things called books.... They are like TV for smart people. - Robert Redford

I don't just write books. I climb inside and live there. - Aurora Whittet

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can. - Jane Hamilton

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me. - Margaret Peterson Haddix

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. - John Burroughs

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. - Mark Twain

Someone needs to buy a radio station, then play nothing but audio books, with a different genre of book played at set times. That way we can always have something new to read, no matter where we are. - Shana Chartier

When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books. - Kathleen Norris

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. - Franz Kafka

I love to go the library to borrow books. But I also enjoyed buying books to create my sacred library. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I realized that I read books not because of the words used but because of the familiar feelings these words help me express. - krisangelagb

Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt....but do read... - Rabindranath Tagore

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive. - James Baldwin

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Read enough books to build your sacred soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita

They always said my books were ass. The next one I wrote told them to kiss it! - Khali Raymond

Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. - William Shakespeare

Books create readers; conversation, friends - Marty Rubin

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter. - Paxton Hood

Cats and books are my universe. Both are infinitely fascinating and full of mystery. - Rai Aren

Life is a book that someone else is reading—and you, a key character—hence the need for continual conflict and resolution. We can't have any boring books. - Richelle E. Goodrich

I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end. - Eudora Welty

Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read. - Michael A. Stackpole

Darling, in this family we don't call anyone a novelist who has not written more books than Jane Austen. - Pansy Schneider-Horst

The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books. - Stéphane Mallarmé

Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them. - Tara Bray Smith

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world. - John Burroughs

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. - Thomas Carlyle

Wise people are motivated by the quotes and by the books. - Deyth Banger

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. - Michel de Montaigne

Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them. - Annie Dillard

Computers don't kill books; people do. - Douglas Rushkoff

If the wealth you've accumulated is in the form of friends, family and books, then you're doing life right. - Saleem Sharma

You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. - Maurice Sendak

Life without Music would be a Mistake. Life without Books would be Catastrophic! - Nandini Deka

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment - Joe Queenan, One for the Books

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986] - Jorge Luis Borges

Books and school are great for learning but there is no substitute for life and living to provide a real education. - Ken Poirot

I dream of books! - Lailah Gifty Akita

Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old. - C.S. Lewis

This mysterious path is described in the holy books, but it cannot be found simply by the study of sacred texts. It is found by the grace and guidance of an accomplished teacher. - Swami Sant Sevi Ji Maharaj

I believe books should be like a prime rib steak ~ good and thick. - E.A. Bucchianeri

As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves! - Jan Karon

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. - Charles Caleb Colton

I write because in my books, I can experience those (mad and crazy) things that I won't be able to do in my real life - Anamika Mishra

I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself. - Tommy Lee

To be a prosperous pastor one needs: (1) a bible (2) a tailored suit; and (3) a few psychology books. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different. - John Steinbeck

If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies — Tolkien didn’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies, he read books on Finnish philology. Go and read outside of your comfort zone, go and learn stuff. - Neil Gaiman

Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That's my main concern, and always will be. - George R.R. Martin

I've always believed in spreading the gospel of good books. - S. Evan Townsend

I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release them, from the books that unfairly captured their soul. - Shannon L. Alder

The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books. - Vladimir Nabokov

Books have always been among my most trusted of friends, Mr. Linden replied. The best of them allow the mind to wander wherever the author's musings lead. - Walter Dean Myers

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once. - Stephen King

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

I cannot live without books because books are my life. - Acacia

I've received two key pieces of advice in regard to my books. The first is, "You should lay off the f-bombs." The other is, "You should add more f-bombs. - LiNCOLN PARK

There is so many books in the world, so many books on my TBR, that it would be impossible to read each and every one in my lifetime. But all that matters is that I went on these adventures, away to another life, apart from the one I am living now, and I enjoyed them. That's all that matters. - Mekiah Johnson

An extrovert looks at a stack of books and sees a stack of papers, while an introvert looks at the same stack and sees a soothing source of escape. - Eric Samuel Timm

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. - John Keats

Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature. - Fran Lebowitz

The books we read in childhood don't exist anymore; they sailed off with the wind, leaving bare skeletons behind. Whoever still has in him the memory and marrow of childhood should rewrite these books as he experienced them. - Bruno Schulz

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. - Thomas Carlyle

Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows. - Friedrich Nietzsche

You can build your strength, If you read enough books! - Lailah Gifty Akita

Sad that there is books that are based on bad events that has happened. But there is books that has been based on really good events. I like to read the ones that are based on both. - Dawn Huntsman

It's not the books by Stephen King that I read,I need protection from the things in my head . . . - Jimmy Buffett

Her grandfather's books [...] opened before Ada, a world whose colours were so dazzling that reality paled in comparison and faded away. Boris Godunov, Satan, Athalia, King Lear: they all spoke words charged with meaning; every syllable was inexpressively precious - Irène Némirovsky

Give up your holy books, and remember the Lord, you fool, and stop oppressing others so badly. - Bhagat Kabir

Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird. - China Miéville

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. - Virginia Woolf

So I had nothing to distract me from my books and their other worlds that swallowed me whole, from Narnia to the Wisconsin woods, from a small town in Sweden to the red earth of Prince Edward Island. Nothing and no one interested me as much as my books. - Luisa Weiss

Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success. - Brian Tracy

Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS) - Jeanette Winterson

I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from. - Lawrence Wright

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books – especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. - John Wooden

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt. - Lauren Willig

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books. - Ursula K. Le Guin

People are like books. Eventually, the focus shifts from the cover to the story that cannot be read in one sitting. - Kat Lehmann

Feed your creative mind.Feed your joyful, selfless heart.Feed your soul to grow.Feed with books, music, painting or arts,Feed with your special favorite passion you joyfully share near or far apart. - Angelica Hopes

Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine. - Patrick Rothfuss

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil. - Voltaire

Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering. - Shannon L. Alder

Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun - Saul Williams

Books are another kind of magic. - G. Lyness

If you close your door to the world of books, the gates of the world of ignorance automatically opens and quickly pulls you inside! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness. - Francis Quarles

Is anything illegal here?' Addison asked.'Library late fines are stiff. Ten lashes a day, and that's just for paperbacks.'There's a library?''Two. Though one won't lend because all the books are bound in human skin and quite valuable. - Ransom Riggs

By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream - Virginia Woolf

I have a right to DNF a book I can't find a fuck to give about. Life is too short to read shitty books. - Sana Khalid

Books, films should be based on specific people... people which are rare and by it's own way pretty mystery as characters. - Deyth Banger

Though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books. - William Shakespeare

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder. - Elizabeth McCracken

It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So the more I can be, the better the books will be. - Jeanette Winterson

Books keep me sane.Words are my saving grace. - Anjali Prabodh

God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation. - Francis Bacon

Not a day goes by, without thinking, that books are our future, not technology. - Arianna Ruby

God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. - w.e. channing

Being in your head is when you analyze, control and overthink. Run on thoughts, worry, talking but not listening, taking all the workshops and reading all the books, but not experiencing it's message. - Eileen Anglin

He left not knowing where he was going, he got there not knowing where he was, and he came back not knowing where he had been. But history books will point out Columbus as the person who made the Americas available for exploitation. I guess I can make the same kind of ridiculous claim. - Herschell Gordon Lewis

Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think. - Douglas Rushkoff

Books may be the most valuable treasure of knowledge, but it is the human mind, that turns that knowledge into wisdom. - Abhijit Naskar

Read books and be happy. - Vanessa Dela Cruz

Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity. - Spanish Proverb

People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside. - Jane Goodall

Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I ­always have to feel that I'm bunking off from something. - Geoff Dyer

Spirituality is for people. It’s not just for those who you might have read about in books, it’s for people. - Belsebuub

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books. - Martin Luther

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em! - John Waters

I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. ― - Eudora Welty

Books allowed my imagination to take flight and it hasn’t landed yet - Lynn Payne

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out. - B.C. Forbes

If your best friends do not read books, they read you. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Books are the best companions as they make you sit near wisdom. - Rajesh Nanoo

Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many. - Randy Pausch

Some books are so familiar, reading them is like being home again. - Louisa May Alcott

The 'Big Bang' idea of pseudo armchair pundits, too is as much a theory as a human-like big buffoon, that your so-called 'holy' books call god. - Fakeer Ishavardas

There is enough knowledge in the books to explain the existing, your knowledge must inspire what is possible. - Amit Kalantri

The best books — like the best music or television or movies or comics or video games — can challenge us and force us to think or perceive aspects of life that we may prefer to avoid. In a sense, they threaten us. - Geoffrey Reiter

I look up at the ceiling, at all the hardcover fiction. So very few people want it. It is operating as insulation rather than stock. The argument rages on about whether it is better to have books or ebooks, but while everyone gets heated about the choices, the hardcover fiction molders quietly away. - Deborah Meyler

Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time. - Terry Pratchett

I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books. - Louisa May Alcott

It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them. - H. G. Wells

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant. - Lawrence Clark Powell

Like some wondrous birds out of fairy tales, books sang their songs to me and spoke to me as though communing with one languishing in prison; they sang of the variety and richness of life, of man’s audacity in his strivings towards goodness and beauty. - Maxim Gorky

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved. - Ansel Adams

I dream that one day I would be a published writer and people would read my books - if not, I would be living in the mountains in a small hut, near a pond where swans swim, writing a diary for myself. - Srinidhi.R

She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you open the books on her shelves, you will find that the front and back covers encase white pages. - Kamand Kojouri

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. - Edward Abbey

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you. - Ernest Hemingway

Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author. - James Jeffrey Roche

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. - Sir Francis Bacon

I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on. - Kurt Vonnegut

Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books. - Hemant Mehta

If getting addicted to something is just wrong, then I don't want to be right when it comes to books and music !! Those are the two things that can set anything in the world right... - Priyanka R

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves. - C.S. Lewis

The average author hawks their books at many events. They are vigilant promoters, waiting for a breakthrough. They do this, or else watch their novel wither away. - Michael J. Kannengieser

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic. - Carl Sagan

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire. - Sara Sheridan

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet. - Jack Canfield

All I needed to know, all true knowledge, the only really essential knowledge, was to be found in the books I read and the music I listened to - Karl Ove Knausgård

I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books. - Arthur C. Clarke

I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy. - Frank Zappa

Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist. - Adam Gopnik

Renew your mind more often by reading variety of books - Lailah Gifty Akita

The world of books captured my heart. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air. - Sholem Asch

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them. - L.M. Montgomery

A mind possessed by unmade books, unwritten lines on empty hooks. - Michael Faudet

Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them. - Walter Farley

Buy books. Unlike high calorie food, they don't give heart attacks. - Tanushree Podder

There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over. - Margaret Peterson Haddix

The thing about books was, the more you read and liked them, the more you wanted to have on hand to read. Before you knew it you needed more bookshelves, and then all of the sudden they filled your house. - Sui Ishida

Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights - Ephrem the Syrian

True writers have a lot more invested in the way they've written their books than in what those books happen to be about. - Po Bronson

My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action. - Shannon L. Alder

Read books. As often as you can. Mostly classics. - Maura Kelly

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win. - Christopher Morley

Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world's friend. - Michael Bassey Johnson

I wonder how many books you have read? - Lailah Gifty Akita

I am Donna Julia. I like business related books. I like forex trading and have started trading with a group related to trading. you may visit - A. Zampolli

I love buying books to create my sacred library. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world. - Richelle E. Goodrich

In the books, I meet characters which I really like and I think that they are like me... but so far I haven't met them in real life! - Deyth Banger

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal. - Lenore Hershey

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. - Emma Thompson

Take my television. Take my computer. Take my cellphone. Take my music. But don't ever touch my books. - Kristen Darling

People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii) - Robert Harris

The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books. - Nancy Etchemendy

For some reason, when people meet me and find out I'm a writer they always ask if I write children's books. Um... please don't let your kids read my books. Well, unless your kids are in their 30s or something...then yeah, they're old enough. LOL - Michelle M. Pillow

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. - Edward Gibbon

There are a lot of people like me, people who need books the way they need air. - Richard Marek

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them. - Mark Twain

Books may well be the only true magic. - Alice Hoffman

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since. - G.K. Chesterton

Books, I found, had the power to make timestand still, retreat or fly into the future. - Jim Bishop

Books tell you more about their owners than the owners do. - A.M. Homes

Do not buy finery or jewels, because books are worth more than they are. Adorn your understanding with their precious ideas, because there is no luxury that dazzles like the luxury of science. - Luisa Capetillo

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page. - Jane Hamilton

BIG books are better. There, I said it and it's true. - Richelle E. Goodrich

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. - Christopher Marlowe

The world is small. Books make it bigger. - Jerry J.C. Veit

My next option is to only write a list of the books I like, but then again, I don’t read a book I don’t like so it doesn’t solve any of my problems. - Genesis Quihuis

For books are more than books, they are the lifeThe very heart and core of ages past,The reason why men lived and worked and died,The essence and quintessence of their lives. - Amy Lowell

Read a good book every day. Books help to educate the soul. The mere joy of learning something new will instill the will to live in you. - Sanchita Pandey

One of the things I love about labeling myself as an author is that I can read books and call it "researching writing styles."-- - Mike Mankoff

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. - Salman Rushdie

Books contain nothing, or almost nothing, that's important: everything is in the mind of the person reading them.'If you were trying to find an idiotic remark, that one took the cake! - Jacques Poulin

If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart. - Mortimer J. Adler

There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books. - James Patterson

Books are a staircase to unknown worlds. - Jason Ellis

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow? - Albert Einstein

He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

Fiction books give the reader a chance to step away from their own reality and into the shoes of the characters, and they show you a world that isn't the one you already know. And sometimes the story's not so different from your own, and it lets you get closer to your own feelings. - Shin Towada

Of course I loved books more than people. - Diana Setterfield

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. - Oprah Winfrey

I write because I know I am only one to control the world I created in my books. - Anamika Mishra

Everything shall pass way, only books will remain. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read."[As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)] - George Bernard Shaw

Euripides "questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men. - Edith Hamilton

My plan is to continue teaching many more years than the 32 years I've already enjoyed and continue writing, and promoting my books and websites if it's God will. - Ana Monnar

I think I'm going through a bit of ADD. I'm reading 3 books simultaneously and it's something that I don't recommend. It's like watching TV with two others who keep changing the channels... - S.J. Romero

Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing. - Hank Green

To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. - Claude Adrien Helvétius

As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate. - Ludwig Feuerbach

I've deprived my family in order to buy books. No doubt there is a special punishment in hell for such self-indulgence. Perhaps I shall be struck with blindness among the rarest known to men. - I.J. Parker

We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.[Inside Out (VH1)] - Warren Zevon

Just as some books are so beautiful and intriguing that you never want to put them down, forever eager of what lies beyond the scope of a single page, so you never cease to intrigue me, leaving me in constant yearning of all that resides within you. - Katie Douglas

The road of life’s twists and turns give wisdom; reading books and schooling give you knowledge. - Debasish Mridha

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. - Joseph Joubert

Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one - Jo Linsdell

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. - Thomas Merton

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I’ve been swindled all the same because it’s never anything more. - Simone de Beauvoir

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books. - Karl Lagerfeld

A life without books is empty. - Lailah Gifty Akita

As an author, I want to write what I’m inspired to write. Not what my readers want me to write. I feel like the books will ultimately be better if my heart is fully into what I’m writing. - Colleen Hoover

I wish I could find MY books listed on GOODREADS - DODGING JOE, THE WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T EXPLAIN, THE BITTER GRAPES - ll available through Amazon and Createspace - - Saaskia Aark-Bennett

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. - Samuel Butler

Books allow one to jump into another person's imagination while also exploring their own! - Jen Selinsky

When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists. - Marilynne Robinson

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends—always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that. - J. Donald Adams

I don’t care who you love, what you believe, how you look, where you’re from or what you do. If you are a good hearted person, you’re good in my books! - Tanya Masse

Why do all your friends talk like books? - Pamela Dean

Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it. - Josh Lieb

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. in the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education. - Whitney Griswold

I enjoy sharing my books as I do my friends, asking only that you treat them well and see them safely home. - Ernest Morgan

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. - Eudora Welty

...Okay... probably now you have read all my books up to now..., you have check out everything what I have and you are asking what more???Check out horror and try to understand it! - Deyth Banger

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. - Edwin Percy Whipple

Since when did books ever solve anything? They only raise more questions than they answer, otherwise they’re just fucking entertainment, and I am not here to fucking entertain you. - Zia Haider Rahman

Everybody in the world ought to care for books, and if there are some who do not, why that is a perfectly convincing reason why books ought to be given to them, to be a rebuke to them and, perchance, to rescue them from the error of their ways. - Willis Johnson

To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. - Sir William Osler

I am self-educated from genre books. - Charlaine Harris

sometimes stories and books are all that we need to take us away - Susan Ornbratt

Associate with noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so not wait for, or depend on other people. - Thomas Davidson

A room without books is like a body without a soul. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2) - Russell T. Davies

Without story books is like a person with no soul. - Stephen King

Books are left untouched. Fanaticism became our trait.. Now more than ever we let others feed our minds and we became the zombie society walking around without purpose, without care, without vision. - Maria

Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The reading of great books awaken and brightens the light of my soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The problem with being an author in this modern world is such: computers break often; books don't - Emma Iadanza

In 1994, the average person spent $79 on books as compared to $56 on recorded music. - Richard L. Brandt

Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks. - William Shakespeare

Books are silent, but have the ability to scream. - Bert McCoy

Of course, a single verse of the Holy Qur'an or a hadith moves the faithful to good actions, but volumes of books would not move an unwilling person who is like an ass carrying a load of books. - Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhalvi

For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it. - Sara Sheridan

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. - Charles Lamb

Books are like blind dates; some good, some not, some leave you wanting more … - Nanette L. Avery

I do not want to just read books; I want to crawl inside them and live there. - Anonymous

I love books where I can't wait to turn every page, songs that grab me the first time I hear them, and films that make me totally forget about the craft because I am totally engaged in the story. - John Grooters

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble. - William Drummond

We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books. - Douglas Adams

Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don't yet know what to do with. - Alain de Botton

So many books, I'm about to have a heart attack! - Mekiah Johnson

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. - Stephen Fry

I love to read books. I love to read anything really, even the back of the cereal box.But there is nothing that will ignite your soul like reading God’s Word. - Rachel Wojnarowski

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. - Frances Hodgson Burnett

True dexterity is not just in books; It is giving from above, we learn it, it is nurtured, it is applied and it is developed. He who do not know what has been giving to him from above shall never know how to use what he has been giving efficiently and effectively - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

One wonders in the end if books don't do more harm than good. - Marty Rubin

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

Perspective was my secret weapon, and books gave me plenty of ammunition. - Ian McNulty

The burning lamp is found in reading books. - Lailah Gifty Akita

There was going to be a spot for me in this joint, the earth, after all. It was never going to be a great match for someone as bright and strange as me, but books were going to make it survivable. - Anne Lamott

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know. - Don DeLillo

It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there. - William Golding

I even love the smell of books. - Adriana Trigiani

America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.

I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does. - Douglas Coupland

With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do. - Morrissey

Prepare yourself for some bad news: Ronald Reagan’s library just burned down. Both books were destroyed. But the real horror: He hadn’t finished coloring either one of them. - Gore Vidal

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. - William Shakespeare

Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages. - Neil Gaiman

I don't need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I'm there. - Lori Lesko

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else. - John Waters

Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most. - Richard P. Denney

Most people think that making a living from books is fun or joyful, but there's much more to it than what the eyes can see, and I wish I had more time for more profitable and also joyful activities. - Robin Sacredfire

I just met Stephen King in my dreams... I just said what I have watched and read from his books... Mainly I received a hug from him, it was like we are friends from long time. - Deyth Banger

Books are a narcotic. - Franz Kafka

Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me. - Anatole France

To dive in the darkness, I should dive in the truth, then in images of the world..., then facts, then in books, then listening, then in short stories... that's how I write the horror. It's very complicated. - Deyth Banger

I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough books. Probably both. - Zoë Marriott

The things that change your life are: the people you meet, the classes you take, and the books you read. - Jim Rohn

When I die I hope it may be said:'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'. - Shannon L. Alder

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,Are a substantial world, both pure and good:Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,Our pastime and our happiness will grow. - William Wordsworth

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases. - Kurt Vonnegut

For me, reading is so much more. Books teach you how other people think, and what they're feeling, and how they change from ordinary beings to extraordinary ones. Often they are so appealing and intelligent, you'd rather spend time reading about them than doing anything else. - Jennifer Kaufman

Crammed among the stacks of books in his room, the author treated literature as if each book were a window in a city of unstable skyscrapers, and he was the window-washer tasked with the impossible job of cleaning them all. - from Pageturner in 365 Tomorrows - Joseph Patrick Pascale

The Measure of success isn't money or the number of books you write, it is seen in the faces of those you love - Jason W. Blair

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day."(Interview with The Booklovers blog, September 2010) - Gail Carriger

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives. - Calvin Trillin

I spent all the money I had, to get the sacred books of my life. - Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. - Mary Ellen Chase

Clearing your head of everything you thought you knew, even your mostcherished ideas, will give you the mental space to be educated by your present experience--the best schoolof all. You will develop your own strategic muscles instead of depending on other people's theories and books. - Robert Greene

We spend great sum of money to buy good books, so that we can satisfy our pleasure of reading. - Lailah Gifty Akita

We have reached the age of denial, we have become happiness seekers, afraid to feel. We are told to think positive, to seek only joy. Stores overflow with books selling you ways to rid yourself of ‘negative’ feelings. - Aysha Taryam

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. - Sir Francis Bacon

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house. - Beverly Cleary

Never regret losing time on reading good books - Kowtham Kumar K

some of the first words a child learns are brand names, because they don’t have to sound them out. It becomes part of your environmental vocabulary [Whitney Curry Wimbish & , "The Binary Companion," LA Review of Books, January 22, 2015]. - Sarah Gerard

I still find each day to short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

I'll have enough books when they fill my room like the stars fill the sky. - E.V. Fairfall

There are those who wish to read everything. Do not try to do this. Let it> alone. The number of books is infinite, and you cannot follow> infinity...For where there is no end, there can be no rest; where there is> no rest, there can be no peace; and where there is no peace, God cannot> dwell. - Hugh of St. Victor

Books pull you to other worlds ... let them, and enjoy the adventure. - H.B. Bolton

Friends are like books, you learn from every one of them. - Debasish Mridha

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. - Gore Vidal

Maslow said sex is the primary need. Does that mean pornstars spend more money in books than anyone else? - Daniel Marques

The day when on the cover of my books, my name will appear in bigger font than the title of my book- I will stop writing because that would be the death of the writer in me. - Kirtida Gautam

In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian crime novels fingerprinting has to be explained because it's new. Nowadays it's part of our world and we can simply assume that knowledge if we write about it. - Sara Sheridan

Books can kill you, while you are reading. - Deyth Banger

Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill A Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! - Homer Simpson - Matt Groening

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive. - James Baldwin

Read books - Deliaha Hicks

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads. - Anatole France

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? - Karl Kraus

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words can change our lives simply by being next to each other. - Kamand Kojouri

I write books, bitch! - Junnita Jackson

Books don't need batteries. - Nadine Gordimer

Books are absent teachers. - Mortimer J. Adler

It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future... - Wilferd Peterson

I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too. - Amit Kalantri

It is there, where they burn books, that eventually they burn people. - Heinrich Heine

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. - William Lyon Phelps

My only wish is to be buried with my books. - Nikita Dudani

The multitude of books is making us ignorant. - Voltaire

I believe books are life's best gifts, as they allow us to venture into worlds we never thought existed. Giving us a chance to be someone different, giving us the chance to dawdle in the words - And feel free! - Anonymous

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do. - Gertrude Stein

Quran‬, ‪Bible‬, ‪BhagwadGita‬ are your (as an follower's) way of life and not every-ones way of life, so don't force people to change. These Holy books teach you to change yourself (for good) and not others. - honeya

..........books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient gems, which, for a day of need, The Sultan hides deep in ancestral tombs. These hoards of truth you can unlock at will: - William Wordsworth

You make me love books and the words inside them, because they talk about you. I know they do, they tell me that I love you, not as cliché as I write it, but in the warmest, deepest, calmest words I could ever read. I love you, like the books say it. And I'll find a better way to say it one day. - Nema Al-Araby

I couldn't suppress a smile. It was inconceivable that I was here, in a place as extraordinary as the fantasy books Sophie loved. Maybe...just maybe those stories are based on a measure of truth. Maybe one day I'd write our story. - Heather L. L. FitzGerald

Just think how many books I could've sold if Harry had been a bit more creative with his wand." -[On the success of 50 Shades of Grey] - J.K. Rowling

You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant for decades because they only germinate after fire, and sometimes the burned landscape blooms most lavishly. - Rebecca Solnit

Apparently Lord Wyndham did regularly donate books to various museums around London. They were usually ones which he had collected earlier, but which were no longer of interest to him or his associates. Irene twitched at the very notion. Give books away? How very frivolous, she finally said. - Genevieve Cogman

May I a small house and large garden have;And a few friends,And many books, both true. - Abraham Cowley

Read great books and be great. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Bite me." -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books. - J.D. Robb

My goal is to read as much as possible books, my dream is to meet the snow person, the storm person and to make something together. I will be the rain, Snowy will be the snow, Stormy will be the storm - it's not so complicated as far I see. - Deyth Banger

History books are being re-written all the time - Andy Warhol

Great books help you understand and they help you feel understood. - John Green

Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit. - Oliver Gaspirtz

Look upon good books; they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself...and you shall need no other comfort nor counsel. - Francis Bacon

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to? - Bette Midler